CABALLISTICS, INC.

BY FRAZER IRVING

Tharg's brief was to have a shot where lotsa zombies were rushing
towards us, based on a sketch by Dom Reardon of the horrible uglies in an
underground tunnel. Being a fan of George Romero's zombie flicks this was
easy to visualise. It's also how I see xmas shopping.

It's been a while since I drew monsters, so I was very concerned if I
still had the evil touch. Several glasses of blackest drinking ink later I
set to work and hey presto, the decomposing hordes of the undead came to
un-life before my very spectacles. The plan here was to create a sense of
lighting as if the viewer had just flicked on a torch in the darkness and
seen these buggers oozing towards them.

This was the almost final version. I did this in monochrome to set
up the tones, but I kinda liked it. The sickly green gave my putrifying
children a nice feeling, and I would have gone with it if all my peers
hadn't suggested otherwise.

To remedy the situation I merely altered the hues of each
zombie a little. Warm yellowish puke colour at the front, cold
titanic-at-the-bottom-of-the-atlantic green-blue at the back. I also gave
the guys some funky eyes. I wanted it to seem like at the front they had
regular bloodshot eyes, but as they went further into shadow it was
something more demonic.